Wednesday, February 01, 2006

If you slept thru the SOTU ...

you didn't miss anything.

"Bubble boy bush" gave us his normally uninformed opinion on the state of the union. "Tonight the State of our Union is Strong." Then plowed through a weak reading of a laundry list of quickly forgettable insignificant proposals that really don't matter much. He never bothered to mention the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, or if he did I missed it.

His proposal that the federal government should increase financing for mathematics and science education might be of some interest, but wait to see what the funding is, and what the limitations that the lobbyists for the religious right put on it. He has no room within the Republican Party to actually do anything here, so it is an empty promise.

The word "democracy" appeared in the speech. "Freedom" was used frequently. No indication that he knows what either means or how to accompllish them. Considering his delivery, there is even less evidence that he cares.

Oh, yeah. Big promise to achieve energy independence in about twenty years. You know, the stuff he has fought against for the last five years? He is trying to recycle the Carter proposals, apparently. The set of programs the Republican Party worked so hard to kill during Reagan and Bush I? And I thought that for Hollywood to keep trying to recycle old hits meant their writers had run out of imagination. I guess it means the same for Presidential speech writers.

The speech sure didn't live up to its hype. But this person, Bush, has nothing to work with. Three years left in his term, and he is dead in the water with nowhere to go and nothing to do.

No comments: